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Jon: new developments in the case of a u.s. soldier charged in that deadly shooting rampage in afghanistan. the wife of army staff sergeant robert bales speaking out for the first time about her husband's case. national security correspondent jennifer griffin is live at the pentagon. i guess sergeant bales' wife says she didn't see this coming. >> reporter: not only did she not see it coming, she told the today show this morning that she had not asked her husband in the times that she has spoken to him by phone whether he, in fact, did this. she said she wouldn't do so because she believed the...

Fund. we all want to see the good guys get awarded and the bad guys get punished. you said we might be closer to finding the money. does that mean the people that lost it are going to get anything back? >> i don't think they are for a lot of reasons, that the money that mf global used, i'm not saying it was right to use that money, but when you pay it out to people that really are owed that money you can't call it back. the court rulings are very difficult. you really just can't call it back. they are probably not get their money back. then it becomes who ordered the funds being used and is th...

Robert bales. reports are that each victim, the families of each victim received $50,000 per victim. here's general allen. >> it is a natural and a cultural norm that we would pursue. we've done that in the past, and in this case it was appropriate, we believed, given the circumstances of this particular tragedy. >> reporter: one man had 11 family members killed, that means he was given an estimated $500,000, a princely sum in afghanistan f the reports of the amount are correct. and nobody has pushed back on those amounts. there is great concern that that money may somehow fall into enemy hand...

Unbelievable, telling "the today show" her husband showed no signs of posttraumatic stress disorder before going to afghanistan, she also says her husband loves children and feels she'll never believe he could be involved in the killings. in the meantime, we do have reports today that the united states has paid close to $50,000 in compensation to the families for each of the 17 victims. jon: also in southern afghanistan, today, a gunman wearing an afghan national army uniform shot and killed two british soldiers at a nato base. the attacker who was then shot dead by coalition forces reportedly...

This is such a big deal because this is a novel area for the exploration of the commerce clause which says can the government make you do something. it's not that they can't make you not do something, which is what they told that farmer, but could they make him grow wheat, could they compel him to do something that would be for the betterment of all national commerce. that's the question for the court. jon: it's going to be fas nailing to watch. chris stierwalt, thank you. if you want more on your politics fix, catch chris, at the bottom of the hour, on power play, while you're watching "happe...